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[quote]Behold - the exact point where everyone realized what a complete fucking tool you are. "Anyone who doesn't think Starcraft was the BEST RTS GAME EVER because it INVENTED RTS and it was the FIRST GAME TO HAVE COLORS and it was the FIRST PROGRAM EVER MADE TO UTILIZE A MOUSE clearly is a retard, who hates Blizzard, and they actually just LOVE Starcraft but they're trying to be ANTI-CONFORMIST LOL because Starcraft TOTALLY CAME PACKAGED WITH THE ENTIRE INTERNET FOR FREE OMG"[/quote]<

[quote]The person I was quoting said that people bring death upon themselves through their evil doings. How did babies and children bring death upon themselves? What excuse will people make up for God having murdered everyone indiscriminately? Thank goodness it's all myth. Otherwise, it would've been a real tragedy had the flood really occurred.[/quote] I disagree with you, but I don't really want to argue - I've found that I don't enjoy argument on forum :P I do, however,

[quote]all the babies and children were evil.[/quote] They probably weren't, and might well have gone to Heaven. There is a long series of books by Lahaye and Jenkins named the "Left Behind" series, in which the Rapture occurs (quite literally - but at the very least as a sort of allegory), and all the kids and babies take part in it and go to Heaven. I'm not saying that's necessarily what happened here (no one does), but it's certainly a possibility.

[quote]It's a collective delusionalism that reduces all discussion to be just as simplistic as religion, especially the death-god-literalist Christianity "Forgiven" (what an ironic name) subscribes to. If you attack their beliefs, they play the persecution card, because as I pointed out white male Christians are so persecuted in this day and age, owning almost all the means of production, media, and government.[/quote] I beg your pardon, sir. I certainly hope "Forgiven" is the exception

[quote]Yet, it seems to me that the evolutionary theory is not sound no matter what science has to offer till they can answer the universal question 'Why?' There are just too damn many Whys![/quote] I agree with you, sort of :P I'm not saying that you think this, because you evidently don't, but the faults with evolution shouldn't be covered up with ID. It's like trying to cover up, say, a gap in history with philosophy. It just doesn't work - it misses the point of either topic.

*ominous voice* ...that's no moon...

[quote]I should mention that Supreme Commander was the biggest letdown in RTS in quite a while. Massive maps sounds great and all, but, well, for starters almost every 'massive' map was 90% water, but SC just ended up amassing a horde of 400 Heavy Assault Bots. The prevalence of long-range weaponry, tools, and extremely high-power units pretty much negated everything that the 'massive scale' accomplished. I can appreciate what Supreme Commander may have been trying to be - you have a ma

[quote]In the natural sciences, abiogenesis, the question of the origin of life, is the study of how life on Earth might have emerged from non-life. Scientific consensus is that abiogenesis occurred sometime between 4.4 billion years ago, when water vapor first liquefied,[2] and 2.7 billion years ago, when the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon (12C and 13C), iron (56Fe, 57Fe, and 58Fe) and sulfur (32S, 33S, 34S, and 36S) points to a biogenic origin of minerals and sediments[3][4] and molecular

STOP! Forgiven; I'm a Christian. But what you are saying is outside the bounds of this topic. WHAT IS INTELLIGENT DESIGN? It is the idea that there is/was an intelligent being (usually named as God) that guided our development. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Note also that this is separate from Creationism, which states that the Universe was created in 6 days. WHAT IS SCIENCE? It is the investigation of how the universe works. Scientific method is its primary tool, and con

[quote]Why does religion always change from scientific findings? Remember, the earth is the center of the universe...[/quote] The thing is, the Ptolemaic system was Greek, and though it was accepted as true by the Church (which was clearly, scientifically, wrong), it didn't come from the Bible. It's also true that a literalist interpretation of the Bible is faulty, for several different reasons. I see what you mean, but it's how science is seen in light of the Bible. Since the two are s

[quote]Linked ship. Some class of Cruise that with 3 or more, can have their weapon merge together and be 2x more powerful than the damage of them individually (kind of like the death star shooting a planet with the "rays" merging together and firing[/quote] You're thinking siege cannon from Nexus TJI. Now that was a really good idea!

4th post in a row! :P You know, you're right. What you said certainly isn't going to stop me from being a Christian, or any other Christian from stopping being one, so I don't have to get offended at anything you say - I just happen to strongly disagree with you. I've said why, I don't need to drag it out. I apologize for my melodrama.

[quote]whatever religious mumbo-jumbo you buy into[/quote] And to be entirely honest, I find it difficult to see how that isn't an insult.

[quote]I never insulted your religion, YOU chose to be insulted BY what I said, you melodramatic boob[/quote] *shrug* Whatever you say.

[quote]Does Heliocentricism conflict with religion? It sure as hell did back in the 1600's. As for everything else, well, "Waaah".[/quote] Nope, heliocentricism doesn't conflict with religion. Since it did in the 1600's but not now indicates that it isn't an intrinsic fault with religion. People thought that the Bible said the Earth was the centre of the universe, which I can assure you it doesn't. I don't even know what you mean by "waah", but it certainly isn't anything l

[quote]i dont want to insult anyone or if i do it was an accident but how do you know god,allah ect really exists do you have any proof exept for writing in a book that is over 1000 years old. i belive that you can belive what you want to belive but don't try and force it on others. the kids in school should have a choice do they really want to learn intelligent design.[/quote] No problem at all! It's far better this way than getting personal about it. To answer your question,

[quote]So the player would have to decide what direction to expand in - inward to grab the metal, outward to grab the crystal, or along the orbit to grab the taxable population.[/quote] Good idea! Many different playing styles could develop from that.

[quote]I was going to say: "Please. That's as much an answer as saying '... magic!'" But then I realized that's pretty much what every page in the Bible says.[/quote] Will you shut up? This isn't about whether God exists, this is about whether ID should be taught in the science classroom. [quote]As for something that is brought up over and over again, evolution 'conflicts' with whatever religious mumbo-jumbo you buy into because it removes yet another hidey-hole for 'g

[quote]nebulas[/quote] ...aren't implementable, because nebulae are huge. Really freaking huge. Think light-years across.

[quote]I agree with that plus we just finnished up the solar system at my school and i relised that their are no moons in this game[/quote] Say, this is off-topic, but are you really interested in astronomy?

[quote]To be fair, the Europeans made killing people over it a hobby long ago[/quote] That's a fault of the people, not the God :P People kill for other reasons too, you know :P Doing it in the name of religion is just another way for them to get what they want. [quote]Because Intelligent Design, cutting to the heart, is answering questions with a question that they do not, cannot, and will not answer[/quote] Oh, it can answer the question. God is eternal (if only it w

[quote]Evolution has never been a completely 100% sure thing. Sure, Darwin started it all, but you'd be amazed at how many things he'd end up being wrong about! The problem I have is that ID proponents attempt to latch onto that as some sort of attempt at discrediting the whole thing. Science works by constantly revising the theory as new evidence is uncovered, so it's never going to be perfect. We have to remember that there are a lot of theories out there.[/quote] Remember th

[quote]As for the argument that it's like pissing on the ground and trying to spell your name: I guarantee you, if you had a very large bladder and a couple million years you'd eventually end up writing it in cursive.[/quote] I think his argument was that you couldn't [I]accidentally[/I] spell your name. Sure, I could write it after a couple of tries, but give me a bladder the size of Betelgeuse and a billion of years and I find it hard to see how I'd accidentally end up spelling my nam

Reid Malenfant: Stephen Baxter's Space/time series. I personally hated those books :P Hmm. How about: Gurgeh (should be easy for some of you :P )

[quote]So strategy to you is more units with less "micromangement"?[/quote] Go research and find the difference between tactics and strategy. You seriously need the knowledge.